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L.N. 48 of 2002
PATENTS (GENERAL) (AMENDMENT) RULES 2002
(Made under section 149 of the Patents Ordinance (Cap. 514))
1. Commencement
These Rules shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of section 5 . of . the Intellectual Property (M.iscellaneous
Amendments) Ordinance 2001 (2 of 2001).
2. Request to record a designated patent
application under section 15 of the
Ordinance
Section 8(2)(c)(iv) of the Patents (General) Rules (Cap. 514 sub. leg.) is
repealed and the following substituted
"(iv) the publication number (if any) assigned to the designated patent application by the designated patent office, and the date (if any) of its pUblication by the designated patent office;".
3. Applications for the grant of short ..term
patents under section 113 of the
Ordinance
Section 58(2) is amended by repealing everything after "invention" and
sUbstituting"and include the following-a ,description of the invention; (b). one or more claims, but not exceeding one independent claim;
(c) any drawings referred to in the description or the claim or claims.".
S. R. SELBY
Registrar of Patents 18 March 2002
Explanatory Note
These Rules amend the Patents (General) Rules (Cap. 514 sub. leg.).
2. Section 8 (2) (c) (iv) is amended to correspond to section 5 of the
Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Amendment) Ordinance 2001. (2 . of
2001) in order to provide for cases where the desIgnated patent apphcatlon
concdrned has no pUblication number or date of publication.
3. Section 58(2) is amended to allow an invention's title, description, claims and drawings to be provided in any order in the specification on an application for the grant of a short-term patent.